Christina Oxenberg Is Related to Royalty and Hollywood Stars—And She Is Ready to Tell All Her Stories
Oxenberg spills the tea on the Kennedys, Jeffrey Epstein, her cousin Prince Andrew. “It’s everything I’ve been asked never to repeat.”
By Ben Widdicombe
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Christina Oxenberg is the kind of deliciously wicked society writer whose work begs to be enjoyed with a bowl of popcorn and a glass of wine.
The 56-year-old bon vivant is the daughter of a Serbian princess; cousin to the British royal family, and sister of the Hollywood actress, Catherine Oxenberg. Over the years she has run with an uptown-downtown cross section of New York society from Andy Warhol’s Factory crowd to the Kennedys, and her address book is full of movie stars. (Her ex-husband is the artist Damian Elwes, brother of The Princess Bride star Cary Elwes.)
The author of nine books of fiction and non-fiction, she is now serializing a tell-all memoir every week on the crowd-funded content platform, Patreon (entries are published on Sundays and Thursdays). There, for the past six months, she has been unspooling the secrets of her A-list set for a subscription starting at $1 a month.
Recent entries have dished on Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein; her mother’s alleged affairs with John F. Kennedy, Peter Beard, and Warren Beatty; and her sister’s nine-day marriage to producer Robert Evans. There are also gossipy stories about John F. Kennedy Jr. and being snubbed by Jackie Onassis when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took her to a family wedding.
“It’s everything I’ve been asked never to repeat,” she tells T&C from her home in Palm Beach, where she has lived since Hurricane Irma destroyed her Key West residence in 2017. “But I feel that after the age of 50, the gloves have to come off.”
That’s putting it mildly.
Oxenberg is estranged from her mother, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, as well as her sister—who remains best-known for a two-year run on Dynasty in the 1980s—and writes unsparingly about them both. Recently, she referred to the former as “Genghis Khan,” and the latter as “a veritable drooling sinkhole of want.”
“Tina’s comments sadden me,” Catherine tells T&C. “I won’t say anything disparaging about my sister,” but, she added, “I do not consider my sister a reliable or truthful source.”
Princess Elizabeth told T&C via email: “I am very proud of all my children and their accomplishments. Christina is very clever, a good writer and brilliant at marketing. She knows how to combine imagination with facts as this way she promotes her blogs and stories.”
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